Should Oregon sacrifice its program?

I have been pretty opinionated about the situation that happened to LaGarrette Blount and the Oregon football team in its season opening loss to Boise State. For those who have not been following college football this year, LaGarrette Blount a RB for Oregon, punched a Boise State player and knocked him to his knees after Oregon lost to Boise State. Blount while walking to the locker room, was being taunted by the Boise State fans, went after a couple fans in the stands and had to be restrained by one of his coaches and security personal. Blount was suspended from the team for the rest of year the next day by the University of Oregon. Blount was also suspended in February from the team for "failure to fulfil team obligations".

Chip Kelley, the head coach for Oregon, has released an announcement stating that if Blount fulfils all the requirements that he and the University of Oregon have laid out for him, they will consider reinstating him for the Nov. 7th game against Stanford. I think this is huge mistake on the part of Chip Kelly and the Oregon program. Perhaps they should have not suspended him for the year, but since they did they need to stick to the punishment. You can not go back on your punishment once it is handed out. If you say he is suspended for the year then stick to this. The message you are sending to all your players and future players is that you can do what you want when you are a part of this program as long as you are remorseful afterwards. This is not the message that you want to associated with your program. I think the punishment fit the crime, if Blount had just punched the Boise State player suspend him for 4-6 games, but the fact that he went after the fans is totally unacceptable. Blount should be happy that he did not have assault charges brought against him for the punch he threw. I know if I was out and a guy started mouthing off to me and I knocked him to his knees with a punch there is a pretty good chance I could be spending the night in jail. Blount needs to just stay in shape and enter the draft in April and hope that someone drafts him, this will be a bigger problem then most think since he is going to be known now as a player with character issues.

I firmly believe that Kelly and Oregon Football need to seriously reconsider reinstating Blount, they will sacrifice there program and how University of Oregon Football is viewed nationally if they do reinstate him. Next time something like this happens take more than 24 hours to issue a punishment and make sure you issue the right one, but you can never go back on a punishment once it is handed down or you lose all control of your players and what they think they are allowed to do.